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They tookוַיִּקְחוּallכָּלthe spoilהַשָּׁלָלand allוְ כָּלthe plunder,הַמַּלְקוֹחַof peopleבָּאָדָםand of animals,וּבַבְּהֵמָה
Numbers 31:11
Study it in the app“They took all the spoil and all the plunder, of people and of animals,”
With the Hebrew beneath
Numbers 31:11, word by word
- They tookיִּקְחוּyikchu
fetch
To take someone along, or go and fetch something.
Where else “yikchu” appears- the spoilשָּׁלָלshalal
spoil, plunder
Spoil: what is taken from a defeated enemy.
Where else “shalal” appears- the plunderמַּלְקוֹחַmalkoach
plunder
What is seized in war: people and animals.
Where else “malkoach” appears- of peopleאָדָםadam
human being
All humankind, men and women, as creatures God formed.
Where else “adam” appears- and of animalsבְּהֵמָהbehema
beast
Animals in general.
Where else “behema” appears
The context
10All their cities in their dwelling places and all their encampments they burned with fire.
11 · This verse (above)
12and they brought to Moses and to Eleazar the priest and to the community of the sons of Israel the captives, the plunder, and the spoil, to the camp at the plains of Moab, which are by the Jordan opposite Jericho.